[f. TIMBER sb.1 and v. + -ED.]
1. Constructed of timber; built or made of wood, wooden.
c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 5338. Castels doun bette, and tymbred houses brent.
1552. Huloet, Tymbred, materiatus,… materior,… to worke in tymber.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VIII. 351. A great thicket of wood, where their timberd Cabine stood.
1699. Dampier, Voy., II. I. ix. 172. About a hundred yards from the Fort … there is a low timbered House.
1848. Lytton, Harold, I. iv. They entered London, a rude, dark city, built mainly of timbered houses.
1905. A. C. Benson, Upton Lett. (1906), 139. A little ancient church, with a timbered spire.
2. a. Of a thing (concrete or abstract): Having a structure (of a specified kind); constructed, framed, built, made. (In parasynthetic comb., or qualified by an adv.)
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 1333/1. Loe here the mighty reasons, the stronge tymbered argumentes.
1602. Shaks., Ham., IV. vii. 22. My Arrowes Too slightly timbred for so loud a Winde, Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. (1709), 80. Let them be as Sleek and well Timber’d as those Atoms Epicurus made his Soul of.
1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl., 28 Sept. Lord Oxmington was well known to have his brain very ill timbered.
b. Of a person or animal: Having (such and such) a bodily structure or constitution; framed, built. (Usually in parasynthetic comb.)
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxvii. (1887), 144. Your childe is weake tymbred, let scholing alone.
1622. Fletcher & Massinger, Spanish Curate, II. i. A fine straite timber’d man and a brave soldier.
1769. Stratford Jubilee, II. i. I’m as well timbered about the legs and face, as one can meet.
1861. Times, 27 Sept. Cart-horses, young, and well-timbered, and quick walkers.
3. Furnished with growing trees; wooded.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3724/4. Piggott’s Farm…, being well Timbred.
1754. Fielding, Fathers, II. i. That estate … of yours in Hampshire is a very ill-timbered estate.
1854. Bartlett, Mex. Boundary, I. ix. 234. So rich a timbered country does not exist between the Mississippi valley and the Pacific, except in the mountainous district of Upper California.
1887. Moloney, Forestry W. Afr., 6. About one half of the timbered land in the island belongs to the Government.
